Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...
...Cotton, a Harvard man and potent Manhattan lawyer, worked with Herbert Hoover in the U. S. Food Administration. Afterwards he became a law partner of William Gibbs McAdoo (1919-21) when the firm of McAdoo, Cotton & Franklin represented the Mexican oil interests of Edward Laurence Doheny. Because of Doheny's subsequent connection with the Oil Scandals, Senate Progressives sought to capitalize Mr. Cotton's service to his discredit...
...Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest of all was Oxford University, which was to make Ambassador Dawes a Doctor of Civil Law almost immediately on his arrival. Simultaneously receiving the same degree would be Spanish Ambassador Alfonso Merry del Val, brother of the urbane and genial Cardinal, and Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha...
...Hoover Administration, dedicated to law-enforcement, last week was saved the ignominy of conducting its affairs through the medium of an illegal Congress. Long-wrangled, long-overdue Reapportionment, approved last fortnight (TIME, June 10) by the Senate, was provided for last week by the House when it passed a combined Census & Reapportionment Bill. The House measure duplicated the essentials of the Senate bill in providing that membership of the House shall be retained at 435, and that, after the taking of the census, State representations in the House shall be automatically reapportioned according to 1930 population figures by the executive...
Government officials told Mrs. Morton there were two ways she could "own" White Rock: 1) Go to it, "enter" it, make a "habitable home" on it, live on it for three years, thus acquire title to it under the homestead law...